Equip Exposition Rolls Out Plans for 2025 Show
This October, Equip Exposition will unveil several new including new equipment categories, top-notch entertainment and more.
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| Slated for October 21-24, Equip Exposition has unveiled plans for displays of new equipment and new entertainment. |
From October 21-24 24, 2025, thousands of landscapers, dealers, distributors, contractors, hardscape experts, and outdoor power equipment manufacturers will gather at the Kentucky Exposition Center (KEC) in Louisville for the largest event of their industry.
“We are always aiming to improve what we can offer attendees, and the excitement around the 2025 show is already high,” said Kris Kiser, president and CEO of the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI). “We’re well ahead in exhibitor space reservations this year over 2024.”
As a special treat, an exclusive small batch bourbon has been made by a Kentucky distiller for Equip Exposition. Kiser said Equip Expo is seeking input from attendees and exhibitors with a naming contest. To participate submit names here.
With more than 1.2 million square feet of indoor and outdoor exhibit space, Equip Exposition also offers a 30-acre Outdoor Demo Yard, unique peer-to-peer networking events, education, and technical training offerings both in English and Spanish and high-level speakers.
Since assuming management of the business-to-business trade show in 2022, OPEI has worked to energize Equip Exposition’s offerings.
The show broke attendance records in 2022 with 25,000 attendees, in 2023 with 27,000, and again in 2024 with 28,500. Registration for this year’s show is only $25 through May 31 at EquipExposition.com.
Kiser encouraged contractors, distributors, and dealers to put Equip Exposition on their calendar this year.
Boom trucks, lifts, and other larger vehicles will be available in an outdoor KEC parking lot as well as indoors on the KEC’s Freedom Hall floor.
Also, Kiser said the UTV test track will be relocated, and expanded to a larger area, freeing up additional space in the Outdoor Demo Yard for attendees to evaluate equipment.
Jesse Cole, founder of the Savannah Bananas baseball team, will be the keynote speaker to inspire attendees to grow their own businesses to new heights. As an entrepreneur, Cole will share what it takes to develop a great idea into a brand that people embrace and love, and how to keep creativity flowing for the long haul.
For entertainment, Big & Rich and solo country artist Gretchen Wilson will perform an exclusive concert for show attendees at the Kentucky International Convention Center (KICC) in downtown Louisville on Thursday evening of the show. The concert is included with admission to Equip Exposition.
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